Lualhati Bautista

Angela, a nightclub singer, is plunged into an affair with a married man. She finds herself in the city jail on a charge of frustrated murder filed by her lover's wife. She soon discovers that prison is the place where the most vicious elements of the city are housed together, and that in the women's quarters, all sorts of physical and sexual abuses take place. When she finds out that she is pregnant, she falls prey to bureaucratic imbroglio on the matter of the custody of her baby. (manunuri.com)

A middle-class Filipino family struggles to survive in the era of dictatorship. (imdb)

Women's-rights advocate Lea has two children from two different men. Although her children's fathers find madness in her methods, they pretty much let her have her way as far as their children are concerned.